The UN revealed that the UK is the largest producer and exporter of legal medical cannabis in the world, while simultaneously denying its citizens the right to access medical cannabis.

The report which used data from governments all over the world, found that the UK produced 95 tonnes of cannabis in 2016, more than double the 2015 total of 42 tonnes.

The majority of this “legal” cannabis is produced by one company: GW Pharmaceuticals.

GW made headlines in 2010 after releasing Sativex: a controversial, cannabinoid-based, medication, legal to purchase in the UK.

Sativex is “an oromucosal spray of a formulated extract of the cannabis sativa plant that contains the principal cannabinoids delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) in a 1:1 ratio.”

GW is legally growing cannabis containing THC despite the British Government viewing cannabis as having “no medicinal properties,” refusing to remove it from Schedule I, the strictest level of drug schedule.

The blatant hypocrisy of the British Government is an insult to the millions of medical cannabis users in the UK who are routinely criminalised and punished for accessing the same medication the British Government allows a large Multinational Company to legally export all across the world.

“It is profoundly unethical, and a violation of the fundamental right to health, to deny people access to medicines that are prescribed by their doctors.”
– Steve Rolles, Transform’s Senior Policy Analyst

“It is scandalous and untenable for the UK government to maintain that cannabis has no medical uses, at the same time as licensing the world’s biggest government approved medical cannabis production and export market.

“UK patients are either denied access and suffering unnecessarily, or are forced to buy cannabis from the criminal market. Countries with proper access to medical cannabis do not have this problem, as standardised cannabis products are in the hands of doctors and pharmacists.

“It is profoundly unethical, and a violation of the fundamental right to health, to deny people access to medicines that are prescribed by their doctors.

“The government must relax restrictions that grant a monopoly for a single product to a single company.

“It must allow access to cannabis-based medicines that serve patients needs – what they don’t need is the government’s cruel and misguided war on people who use drugs.“

If the Government truly believed that cannabis has “no medical properties,” they would not allow their country to be used to grow the most amount of legal cannabis in the world.

2 Comments

Hypocrites the lot of them saying it has no medical use yet there happy to grow it and sell it off to other countries yet refused to allow it for there own people also they treat users like crap they throw them in jail for a small amount yet here they are sticking two fingers up at everyone it’s time for a change!!!!